Detroit Free Press Endorsement: Top reasons to re-elect Obama

[marmar]

(Detroit Free Press) What’s the best case Barack Obama can make for re-election? Let’s start with the stunning record of accomplishments he has compiled over the last four years:

• General Motors and Chrysler are thriving — a long, long way from the edge of insolvency, which is where Obama found them on his first day in office. Bridge loans and managed bankruptcies turned them around, and stable growth followed soon after. Is there anything more important to people here in Michigan?

• The economy has grown jobs for the past 30 months, after hemorrhaging 4.9 million in 2009. The bleeding began to stop when Obama convinced Congress to authorize $831 billion in federal stimulus funds, and employment has grown, slowly but inexorably, since the beginning of 2010.

• The Affordable Care Act, a broad set of private-sector and government reforms, is bringing millions of formerly uninsured Americans under the umbrella of reliable health care. It’s a quantum leap forward that has bested both legislative and legal challenges.

• Of the two costly wars started during the Bush administration, one is over and the other winding down. Osama bin Laden and at least 14 other al-Qaida leaders are dead, and their terrorist network is in tatters. Meanwhile, Moammar Gadhafi, responsible for the deaths of more Americans than anyone except bin Laden, was deposed with U.S. help. Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall have the nation’s geopolitical fortunes improved so markedly. ......................(more)

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[John2]

1. My

apologies to the Detroit Free Press whim I stated endorsed Mitt Romney earlier. It was actually the the Detroit News. At least I can admit a mistake when some can't. I'm glad I was wrong though.

[MotorCityMan]

2. I had seen your earlier post on that, no need to apologize

I was SHOCKED to see that you had posted that the Free Press endorsed Romney, and then just realized you must of meant the Detroit News.

Lived in the Detroit area all my life, and the News has always been the conservative (dog pen liner) paper, while the Free Press has always been much more liberal.